Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-10
FRIDAY. JUNE 10. 1885,
Negro Suffrage.

Mr.. INGALLS, recently repeated what he
Rad previously said In the United States
senaie--that negro suffrage was failure.
The northern Republican papers do not
hesitate TO make statements which, II true,
60 10 show that Mr.. INGALLS, is right In his
opinion. They represent the negro maicri-
ty IN such States as Mississippi and South
Carolina to be wholly in the power OF the
white minority. They do not mean 10 be
80 understood, but nevertheless they say by
implication that the negroes, like women
and children, ought to be forbidden to
vote; because they cannot carry into exc
cution the laws they pass, just as women
and children could not enforce law in
community In which all the men were op.
posed 10 its execution.
What else can the Chicago Mail mean by
talking rs follows:
"The southerners are willing, when the
subject OF representation is before Con.
gress, 10 have the negro vote and the negro
population figure for all they are worth.
Every negro vote In the South is IN Offset
to q white vote in the North. He is en-
titled TO the sames hare Of representation IS
the white citizen. He secures the repre-.
sentation, but when that is ACCOMPLISHED
the southern politicians are done with him.
He is good enough to form 4 part of the
basis OF representation but he cannot vote
except as his white masters dictate. He
dare not exercise the right OF free suffrage
II he could; he couldn't II he would"
Notice the outeropping OF race prejudice
in the remark that "every negro vote in
the South is an Offset to lchite vote in the
North" Why shouldn't a negro vote in
the South offset white vote in the North 2
We need not answer. II i not the south.
err whites who talk as il the negro ought
60 be deprived OF the right to vote. 1t is
not Democratic whites, North or South,
who thus talk, but Republican whites.
What can MURAT HnSTEAD mean by the
following twsddie except that the right of
suffrage ought to be taken from the me-
groes He says:
awe may be told there is no opposition
90 the Democrats In Georgia. Well, why
is there DO opposition; Because il is not
permitted. Because the colored citizens
are deliberately, VIGOROUSLY, systemlticIl.
~ DISTINGUISHED. The preface that they
sre allowed their constitutional rights is so
brutally false that ii Is seldom heard OF any
more. What principle that can be avOwed
has the Democratic party that would ac-
count for the peculiir political condition
Of Georgia! None whatever. None can
De named. The Democratic party gets toe
State OF Georgia because it was engaged in
the crime Of rebellion and responsible for
81. - /.
solid for the old Coniederlcy aud all
the doctrines and sympathies and ami
nosities that led 10 the war. With the
bioo0y treason Of States rights as superior
10 national authority behind them, vicious
and mOnslrous and most threatening, the
South is made more solid thap t1e empire
OF Russia. The southern COnfederacy was
troubled with the occasional squirming OF
tie slatts, but the solid South Is not trou-
bled in that way. There isnot q possibility
OF breaking this solIdity until 1t IS crushed
Nv the united power of the North. The
solid south must be defeated politically as
the southern Confederacy was crushed by
fotce Of arms"
Was there ever more significant mlni-
iestStion Of impotent malice! Doomed to
death, the snake OF soctiOnallsm bites itself
aud posons its own blood. HALsTEAD Is
tue leading SHERMAN man in the United
States. lie it is that bas had intrusted to
him the smoothing OF the way for IOHN
SHERMAN to secure the next Republican
nomination for President Of the United
States. 1t Is the champion OF MAHoNE's
fsyori,e candidate that thus libels people Of
the South. WHiTELAw REID leads the
BLAINE forces. MURAT HALsTEAD leads the
SHERMAN forces, and among his followers
is WILLIAM MALONE. Does MALONE hold
that the negroes are defrauded OF the right
TO yotes Does he endorse the SHERMAN
HALsTEAD programme! Is he willing to
20 into the fall campaign as the Virginia
leader of the forces led by HALsrEAD-the
SBIRMAS gang!